Feeding the Boys & Girls Club

So, let’s say you have a little bit of food laying around, maybe 150 pounds of fish, 125 pounds of chicken, and 120 pounds of french fries. What are you going to do with it?

Rick Bellinger of Riverside Grocery did the same thing he’s been doing for five years now. He cooked it all up, drove it to town, and fed 350 kids at the Boys and Girls Club – for free. Pretty cool!

So, when I found out this was happening (Thanks for the heads up, Jim), I thought it’d be a good idea to go down there and shoot some video of it.

They brought several trays of food in, then several more . . . then more, and even more after that. It was a ton of food, or to be literal, almost exactly a fifth of a ton of food.

So, I took some video – kids waiting, food preparation, then kids eating and having fun. At the end of the video you’ll see several shots of kids at picnic tables hamming it up for the camera. What I didn’t notice until I got home and started putting the video together is that there’s one kid, with blonde hair and a red t-shirt who managed to be at every table I filmed. With each successive shot he became less and less reserved until, in the last one, he’s balancing a piece of chicken on his face. It’s pretty funny. Check it out.

Jerry, thank you so much for showing the generosity and love Rick Bellinger (River Side Grocery) demonstrates for the youth of our area. Rick WALKS THE WALk! The kids at the Boys & Girls Clubs of Saline Co. Are so lucky to have his support.